Survivor recalls encounter with Paris gunman

David Fritz Goettinger, 23, describes how he escaped with his life at the historic concert hall after going to the toilet and then telling a gunman that he was Chilean and not French.

“The terrorists got there and opened fire all over the place,” Fritz Goettinger tells Chilevision from Paris, where he lives.

“It was kind of like an earthquake, they were firing all over the place, there were explosions and shots.”

“I’d gone to the bathroom and I came out and could tell something bad happened,” he says.

“The music from the show had stopped so I went to talk with my friend and ask what happened. And then I saw dead people.”

A gunman pointed a rifle directly at him but did not fire, Goettinger adds. He tells police he was asked by one of the gunmen if he believed in God, and he said he did. He was asked if he was French, and he said he was Chilean.

He was let go.

“So then we hid, first we crawled along the floor to find somewhere to hide, and I got stuck somewhere on the second floor,” he recalls, adding: “I’m tired. I am in shock.”

— AFP